Sukta 42

Mantra 2

अहं राजा वरुणो मह्यं तान्यसुर्याणि प्रथमा धारयन्त । क्रतुं सचन्ते वरुणस्य देवा राजामि कृष्टेरुपमस्य वव्रेः ॥

I am king Varuṇa; for me the primal Asuric powers upheld those mighty workings. The gods cleave to Varuṇa’s will; I rule the peoples, wrapped in the supreme encompassing.

Mantra 4

अहमपो अपिन्वमुक्षमाणा धारयं दिवं सदन ऋतस्य । ऋतेन पुत्रो अदितेॠतावोत त्रिधातु प्रथयद्वि भूम ॥

I made the waters swell, pouring their increase; I upheld heaven in the seat of ṛta. By ṛta, the son of Aditi, established in ṛta, he spread out the threefold foundation and widened the earth.

Mantra 6

अहं ता विश्वा चकरं नकिर्मा दैव्यं सहो वरते अप्रतीतम् । यन्मा सोमासो ममदन्यदुक्थोभे भयेते रजसी अपारे ॥

I have done all those works; no divine power can choose a might beyond me, unsurpassed. When the Soma-streams exhilarate me, when the hymns uplift me, then both the wide realms tremble in the farthest reaches.

Mantra 7

विदुष्टे विश्वा भुवनानि तस्य ता प्र ब्रवीषि वरुणाय वेधः । त्वं वृत्राणि शृण्विषे जघन्वान्त्वं वृताँ अरिणा इन्द्र सिन्धून् ॥

All beings know that of you; therefore, O wise one, you proclaim it forth to Varuṇa. You, Indra, the slayer, shatter the Vṛtras; you set free the pent-up rivers.

Mantra 8

अस्माकमत्र पितरस्त आसन्त्सप्त ऋषयो दौर्गहे बध्यमाने । त आयजन्त त्रसदस्युमस्या इन्द्रं न वृत्रतुरमर्धदेवम् ॥

Here, in our own field of being, thy Fathers were established—seven seers—when the hard-to-grasp (light/wealth) was being bound. Then they offered and formed Trasadasyu of this lineage, like Indra, the smiter of the Coverer, a power half-divine (still becoming fully luminous).

Mantra 10

राया वयं ससवांसो मदेम हव्येन देवा यवसेन गावः । तां धेनुमिन्द्रावरुणा युवं नो विश्वाहा धत्तमनपस्फुरन्तीम् ॥

May we rejoice, having won the Rayi—fullness of being—by the offering; and may the luminous powers, and the herds of light, thrive by the nourishing increase. That milking Cow (the streaming source of abundance), O Indra–Varuṇa, set in us for all time—unfailing, never slipping away.